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ProgPower Europe
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ProgPower Europe (formerly ProgPower) is a progressive metal festival held annually in the Netherlands since 1999. Notable headliners have included Sons of Apollo, Evergrey, and Caligula's Horse.

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History

The beginnings of ProgPower Europe started in November 1998 by René Janssen (mostly known from his activities for the Dutch Progressive Rock Pages) decided the time had come for a special event in the progressive metal scene. A contest was held to name the festival; Peter Renfro (founder of the ProgDay Festival in the US) submitted ProgPower, which was deemed the best. So René started looking around for other prog metal fans who would be willing to organise a festival with him.1 The first ProgPower Europe took place in November 1999 at 013 in Tilburg, Netherlands. All the follow on events have taken place at Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands.

ProgPower Europe Specials

Some special performances were given at ProgPower Europe:

  • In 2008 Wolverine played both on Saturday 4 October and on Sunday 5 October. On Saturday they played the same set they played 10 years before when they were headlining the first ProgPower festival. On Sunday they played their regular 2008 set.
  • In 2009 Evergrey surprised everybody with an acoustic set during the diner break.
  • In 2012 Persefone played Thursday night before ProgPower Europe in memory of Mikko Laine, who died in a truck accident the year before. Mikko Laine was the guitarplayer in the Finnish band Sole Remedy.
  • In 2013 Damian Wilson was doing an acoustic set and standup show (!). He also jumped on a table outside the venue during a break playing acoustic guitar and sing-a-long songs with the ProgPower family.
  • In 2014 Pain of Salvation played the whole of Remedy Lane, in addition to a regular set.

Lineups

YearLocationThursday / FridaySaturdaySunday
1999013 in Tilburg, Netherlands14 November
2000Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands10 November11 November
20012Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands5 October6 October
20023Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands5 October
  • Threshold (UK)
  • Heaven's Cry (Canada)
  • Dead Soul Tribe (Austria))
  • Stonehenge (Hungary)
  • Divided Multitude (Norway)
  • Antares (Netherlands)
6 October
  • After Forever (Netherlands)
  • Ashes to Ashes (Norway)
  • The Song Retains the Name (Germany)
  • A.C.T (Sweden)
  • Sun Caged (Netherlands)
  • Arabesque (Netherlands)
2003Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands4 October5 October
20044Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands2 October3 October
20055Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands30 September
  • Mind Key (Italy)
  • Time Line (Netherlands)
1 October2 October
20066Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands29 September30 September1 October
20077Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands5 October
  • Thessera (Brazil)
  • Picture of the Moon (Netherlands)
6 October7 October
2008Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands3 October4 October5 October
2009Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands2 October3 October4 October
2010Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands1 October2 October3 October
  • Jon Oliva's Pain (United States)
  • Oceans of Sadness (Belgium)
  • Day Six (Netherlands)
  • The Dust Connection (Netherlands)
  • Sacrum (Argentina)
  • Love de Vice (Poland)
2011Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands30 September1 October2 October
2012Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands5 October
  • Heaven's Cry (Canada)
  • Anubis Gate (Denmark)
  • Ørkenkjøtt (Norway)

4 October

6 October
  • Vanden Plas (Germany)
  • Nightingale (Sweden)
  • The Levitation Hex (Australia)
  • Alarum (Australia)
  • Shattered Skies (Ireland)
  • A Liquid Landscape (Netherlands)
7 October
20138Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands4 October

3 October

  • Nehl Aëlin (France)
5 October6 October
  • The Ocean (Germany)
  • Wolverine (Sweden)
  • The Omega Experiment (US)
  • Toundra (Spain)
  • Ramage Inc. (UK)
  • Malicious Dream (Netherlands)
20149Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands2 October
  • Heavy Hoempa

3 October

4 October5 October
2015Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands2 October3 October4 October
2016Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands30 September1 October2 October
2017Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands5 October

6 October

7 October8 October
  • Tesseract (UK)
  • Toehider (Australia)
  • Hemina (Australia)
  • Brutai (UK)
  • Organized Chaos (Serbia/Chile)
  • Semistereo (Netherlands)
2018Sjiwa in Baarlo, Netherlands4 October

preparty at Kasteel De Berckt

  • Spires (UK)

5 October

6 October
  • Evergrey (Sweden)
  • Major Parkinson (Norway)
  • Ramage Inc. (UK)
  • Adimiron (Italy)
  • The Thirneenth Sun (Romania)
  • Golden Caves (Netherlands)
7 October

References

  1. "ProgPower - Progressive & Power metal Festival". www.progpower.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2000. Retrieved January 12, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20001018033526/http://www.progpower.com/pp1999/index.htm ↩

  2. "Vampster review of ProgPower Europe 2001". October 16, 2001. Retrieved September 5, 2008. http://vampster.com/artikel/show/4056_Live_.html ↩

  3. "Vampster review of ProgPower Europe 2002". October 22, 2002. Retrieved September 5, 2008. http://vampster.com/artikel/show/6923_Live_.html ↩

  4. "PopFrontal.de review of ProgPower Europe 2004". Retrieved September 5, 2008. http://www.popfrontal.de/pages/artikel/progpower_021004.html ↩

  5. "ZwareMetalen.com review of ProgPower Europe 2005". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20110718161640/http://www.zwaremetalen.com/recensie.php?id=4955&page=1 ↩

  6. "ProgPower Europe 2006". Archived from the original on July 18, 2007. Retrieved October 15, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070718155641/http://progpower.eu/ppeurope2007/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=53 ↩

  7. "ProgPower Europe 2007". Archived from the original on December 25, 2007. Retrieved October 15, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071225103826/http://www.progpower.eu/ppeurope2007/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=103 ↩

  8. "ProgPower Europe, Friday 4th to Sunday 6th October 2013 at Baarlo, Holland. ⋆ Ave Noctum". October 13, 2013. http://www.avenoctum.com/2013/10/progpower-europe-baarlo-holland/ ↩

  9. PROGPOWER EUROPE 2014 official LineUp, accessed May 23, 2014. http://www.progpowereurope.com/bands/ ↩

  10. Pagan's Mind cancel announcement 2014 Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine http://www.progpowereurope.com/pagans-mind-forced-postpone-performance-2015/ ↩

  11. Pain Of Salvation Remedy Lane Set Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed Sept. 30. 2014 http://www.progpowereurope.com/pain-salvation-plays-remedy-lane-progpower-europe/ ↩